The Class of 2019 Senior College Essay Hooks

“It started with the dinosaurs”
-Noah Schmeisser

“Mud is far worse when it takes you by surprise”
-Carter Richards

“My earliest memories are of drawing farm animals with Crayola markers when I was in preschool, and I have been drawing and painting ever since”
-George Kosinski

“I have a superpower”
-Jack Dove

“By at least one conventional standard, I am not human”
-Kara Amar

“As an athlete, I’d always believed in the dictum of famed football coach, Red Sanders: ‘Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing’ ”
-Sydney Hirsch

“I was 14 years old when I first got charged by a bull”
-Madeleine Walker

“For the frst twelve years of my life, my world was a glass bubble”
-Nate Stratton

“A gust of wind reddened our cheeks as we escaped into the depths of the marsh”
-Tyler Cipriano

“I had no idea how to ride a unicycle”
-Chris Nields

“My greatest hurdle, and ultimately my greatest motivator, was apparent the moment I was born: a severe club foot bent 60° inward attached to twisted bones from my knee down”
-Ben Washburne

“It took me five years, five schools, and two states to stay in one city”
-Ellen Ren

“One morning last July, I sat in an ofce building in downtown Hartford, afraid to answer the phone”
-Noah Slager

“As my tent began to tremble around me, I woke to an overwhelming wave of fear”
-Emma Lipman

“Loneliness is an epidemic”
-Ben Nields

“As I packed the last of my gear into the canoe, I could hear the Farmington River gently flowing past”
-Zubin Kenkare

“‘There’s like a 50% chance we’ll move...alright 70%...ok so maybe it’s around 95,’ my dad said to me sitting at the family dinner table”
-Tamara Lillenbaum

“‘You’ll learn to hate it here,’ Luis said”
-Naomi Tomlin

“I stood at the foot of the garage doorway as I watched in horror the sludge of fecal water splash around the cars like small, polluted waves”
-JR Stauff

“‘You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn feld.’ - Dwight Eisenhower”
-Matt Stevenson

“I look around the cafeteria and watch as my hard work is stained with tomato sauce”
-Theodore Tellides

“Since I was young, I’ve struggled with the color of my skin”
-Lady Karen Asamoah

“On my thirteenth birthday, I moved from Scottsdale, Arizona to New Haven, Connecticut”
-Maddie Mulligan

“I break a law of physics every week”
-Fi Schroth-Douma

“If you took a look inside my pockets on any given day you’d get a good idea of the kind of person I am”
-Adwith Mukherjee

“I want to be a mother.”
-Emma DeNaples

“Standing outside on a summer evening, underneath strung fairy lights, holding my partner’s hands, I have never felt more free using my voice.”
-Katie Broun